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Improvising on Music Composition Game

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Edutainment Technologies. Educational Games and Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Applications (Edutainment 2011)

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Based on Dalcroze’s Eurhythmics, this paper proposes a music composition game with an interaction platform for specific hand position and technique training, which includes rhythmic, melodic, and chord progression improvisation activities. Improvisation within this composition game means not to follow any formula or any pre-conceived ideas, and freely to respond to others (such as a computer game played by rules) by improvising rhythms, melodies, and chords under a structure of teaching music elements, so as to encourage active hearing, playing, and notating.

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  1. Department and Graduate Institute of Digital Content Design, Ling Tung University, Ling Tung Road 1, Taichung, 40858, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Szu-Ming Chung & Chih-Yen Chen

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  1. School of Computing and Information Systems, Athabasca University, Edmonton, AB, Canada

    Maiga Chang

  2. Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan

    Wu-Yuin Hwang

  3. Graduate Institute of Information & Computer Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ming-Puu Chen

  4. University of Education, Weingarten, Germany

    Wolfgang Müller

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Chung, SM., Chen, CY. (2011). Improvising on Music Composition Game. In: Chang, M., Hwang, WY., Chen, MP., Müller, W. (eds) Edutainment Technologies. Educational Games and Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality Applications. Edutainment 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6872. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23456-9_52

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